Wages...

[darkkat]

Well, I can now safely say that I do indeed pay my taxes.

In fact, after seeing the wageslip that came through today for the two days' work I did last week, I think I might be paying someone else's taxes as well. Like maybe the Queen's. £16.74? Out of £77?

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[drusillamac]

Are you on emergency tax? It's worth double checking as I was on emergency tax for a while. I earn around £77 as well and don't get as much tax as that deducted. Maybe it's the student thing though.

[darkkat]

Yeah, my other half said it was probably emergenct tax as well, and now that I think about it, when I was with them when I was a student they always seemed to take a lot of tax off, so I guess they must put the emergency tax on as a default or something.

Ah well, at least I now get to shout "But I pay my taxes!" in a loud voice whenever things don't go my way...

Seems about right

[lordxantar]

I think that I get about 20% taken out of my paychecks when I add up Social Security (which will be bankrupt long before I retire), Medicaid (see above), and Income Tax, and I am in that magical 15% lowest tax bracket.

And I do remember having more than the usual taken out if I did a temp job for only a few days to make sure I wouldn't have to pay.

But it's good to know that the Income Taxes aren't too far off from the U.S. despite people who like to tout how I would be raped on txes if I ever moved to England or Canda.

Re: Seems about right

[darkkat]

Well, mine doesn't involve any health insurance (ironically, when I was working with Royal Mail via Reed, £1.32 a week was taken by Reed to pay for private health care for me), but other than that, yeah, British taxes are just as evil as anywhere else.

Well Taxes are Always Evil

[lordxantar]

Of course it doesn't help matters much that there are a few threads going on right now about Capitalism vs. Socialism.